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JOIN TARGET AS A PRINCIPAL TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER – ENTERPRISE DATA STRATEGY
About us:
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
Target’s Enterprise Data Strategy organization plays a pivotal role in unlocking the full value of data as a strategic asset—powering better decisions, enabling AI innovation, and driving sustainable growth across the enterprise. Delivering on this mission requires strong orchestration, alignment, and disciplined delivery across multiple business and technology functions.
As a Principal Technical Program Manager – Enterprise Data Strategy, you will lead the end-to-end orchestration of Target’s most critical enterprise data initiatives. You’ll serve as a strategic connector between business vision, product roadmaps, and technology delivery—ensuring that investments in data capabilities translate into measurable business outcomes.
In this role, you will guide enterprise-level planning and delivery for initiatives such as data platform modernization, data governance and quality, metadata and lineage capabilities, real-time data enablement, and AI readiness. Partnering with senior leaders across the enterprise, you will shape and lead the delivery rhythms that drive progress, transparency, and alignment.
You’ll act as a trusted advisor—providing insight into delivery health, surfacing risks, resolving systemic blockers, and championing enterprise-wide accountability for outcomes. By combining strategic vision with operational excellence, you’ll help Target accelerate its transformation into a data-powered enterprise, ensuring that every team can leverage data safely, efficiently, and at scale.
Core Responsibilities
Enterprise Orchestration: Drive coordinated delivery of Target’s enterprise data strategy across Data Analytics organizations, Product, Engineering, UX and Data Science, ensuring alignment of business outcomes, technology investments, and delivery execution.
Portfolio Leadership: Oversee a portfolio of cross-pyramid data initiatives (e.g., data platform modernization, governance, analytics enablement, and AI readiness), ensuring coordinated sequencing and realization of enterprise value.
Strategic Alignment: Translate the enterprise data strategy into actionable delivery outcomes by connecting vision to execution, aligning priorities across pyramids, and managing tradeoffs to achieve strategic business goals.
Delivery Cadence & Transparency: Establish and lead consistent enterprise delivery cadences that bring visibility to milestones, risks, dependencies, and progress. Create executive-level scorecards and dashboards that measure speed-to-value and delivery health.
Dependency & Risk Management: Proactively identify and resolve systemic blockers impacting enterprise data programs, ensuring cross-team accountability and timely delivery.
Metrics & Value Realization: Define and manage delivery success metrics, demonstrating measurable impact such as improved data quality, reduced delivery cycle time, and accelerated data availability for analytics and AI.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
Four-year degree or equivalent industry experience
10+ years of experience leading large-scale technology or data program delivery in complex organizations
Proven experience orchestrating enterprise-level data or analytics initiatives across multiple business and technology functions
Deep understanding of data ecosystems, including cloud data platforms, data governance, data quality, and AI/ML enablement
Expertise in delivery management frameworks, agile and scaled agile practices, and enterprise planning and orchestration methods
Strong ability to connect business strategy to technical execution, ensuring measurable business outcomes and data-driven decision enablement
Demonstrated experience in driving change across organizational boundaries and influencing senior leaders without direct authority
Proven ability to design and operationalize enterprise cadences, reporting, and transparency mechanisms for large, cross-functional programs
Leadership presence with a track record of accelerating speed-to-value and improving delivery outcomes across complex portfolios
Passion for shaping how Target delivers on its enterprise data strategy—empowering teams to harness data as a strategic asset through disciplined delivery, collaboration, and continuous improvement
Benefits Eligibility
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Application deadline is : 12/18/2025Top Skills
What We Do
Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more.
Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop.
